Where We Live

‘Where We Live’ is a collection of loosely connected short stories that track the same central character’s experience of some of the landscapes surrounding his family home. These landscapes contribute directly or metaphorically to the protagonist’s understanding of his place in the world. Tim Cooke is interested in what drives us to seek out these outshift and edgeland environments and how such landscapes can act upon us. He considers his work to fall into the emerging category of ‘landscape punk’, while some stories directly address themes consistent with works of ecogothic. The collection isn’t outright horror; Tim Cooke is subtle, atmospheric and at times purposefully ambiguous―and as such creates something quite unique…"Tim Cooke’s 'Where We Live' is exemplary and exciting modern weird. Here are stories of things half-glimpsed, of bad memories painfully resurfacing, of edgeland punks in filthy spaces claimed temporarily from creeping darkness. It left an indelible and disturbing mark; I loved it." - Gary Budden (writer / editor)"Tim Cooke's stories of subtle menace scratch at the surface of the mundane, revealing a rich seam of horror beneath." - Dan Coxon (author)(Cover by Adrian Baldwin)

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